A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter: Book Review When I stumbled on A Woman in the Polar Night at a bookstore, I knew I had to have it This is a slim volume and much of it is taken up with Mrs Ritter, her husband, and his friend Karl’s day-to-day survival in Svalbard (Formerly Spitsbergen)
Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick: Book Review On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous
Weekly Update for August 11, 2024 - Introverted Reader Welcome to my weekly update for August 11, 2024! Well, I certainly didn’t mean to disappear for six months but, you know, life The last time I posted, my husband, a travel nurse, was working near our home in North Carolina We wrapped up that work assignment in May and took a couple of weeks off
February 2025 Month in Review - Introverted Reader If you’re new here, you should know that my husband is a traveling healthcare professional and we travel the United States in our RV He works three months or more at one hospital and we have fun exploring the area on his days off
Back to Blogging! - Introverted Reader Travel Job? And then the hospital hired traveling cath lab techs And our eyes were opened We met when we both worked in and around the hospital, so we knew that travel nurses existed We thought it sounded like a really cool lifestyle! We just didn’t realize that his new job could be a travel job
Introverted Reader My husband is a travel nurse who largely grew up in Miami and in winter months we often find ourselves back in Florida as he works at different hospitals around the state Even before we started traveling, we visited my in-laws, who live in Naples now, at least once a year Needless to say […]
Seriously Mum, What’s an Alpaca? by Alan Parks: Book Review ‘Seriously Mum, What’s an Alpaca?’ is the frank and charming story of a brave couple who risk everything to move to Spain to follow their dream When I have daydreams about packing up and moving to a new country, Spain is always the one that comes to mind We visited in 2010 and just loved it